Gridcoin Roadmap Overview - Short, Mid, and Long Term Development and Outreach Goals

There has been a surge of developments to the Gridcoin protocol over the past year and my oh my does it show. Superblock creation has been stabilized, and several improvements and fixes to the beacon mechanism, RPC system, and codebase in general have mitigated forking and reorganization issues.

The front end of Gridcoin has also seen significant advancements over the past 12 months. Contributions to the gridcoin.us website have increased, a greylist process has been developed and implemented, a new white paper has been written and published, and the community and ecosystem has continued to organize and grow.

As we work to build on these improvements to the Gridcoin network it is going to become increasingly important to have a written path to guide our focus and inform the community.

Below is an overview of planned, in progress, and intended short, mid, and long term developments and outreach endeavors. As we continue to organize, we can hopefully build this overview into a more detailed roadmap that helps inform the community and any potential developers and participants who wish to contribute. The roadmap will be updated as more developments emerge.

This document was a combined effort between several core developers, contributors, and participants.

So instead of 1 superblock a day we could get a superblock a day for each whitelisted project. This way if a project server is down during superblock creation it wouldn't need to wait a whole day to get included in the next superblock.

This is also arguably a simplification in the protocol (at least from the users point of view).

Superblock-per-project was mainly proposed to prevent one project failure from taking down the entire superblock consensus. Also it will add a nontrivial (not big, but some) processing and storage overhead to the protocol. However we have to make compromises between pros and cons. Note that it is not black-or-white, projects could be split to multiple super-blocks, each containing some projects.

Well, it’s great to see such enthusiastic projects around Gridcoin!
I will be really happy to see Gridcoin going stronger and better in the near future. It’s a pity, that I barely have enough time to cope with the project I’m currently working now on, so I doubt that I will be able to deliver and devote part of my time. Anyway I will continue to create some posts aimed towards not so technological society, which will contribute a lot.
I am going to consider again these points from the post and if there is any chance to help.
Best wishes!

Great stuff, keep up the great work and the updates. I wish I had more time these days to help with testing or proofing the English on marketing documents, but it's genuinely not in the cards at the current moment. But, I'll still be here cheering the development team and volunteers on!

Does the Manual Reward Claims (MRC) allow for simpler crunching and more GRC transactions without adding additional staking nodes to the network?

One of Gridcoin's strengths is that it is more energy-efficient than Proof-of-Work-based coins (e.g. Bitcoin & Ethereum today), but a distributed Proof-of-Stake coin (like Steem, or soon, EOS) might leapfrog Gridcoin to be a more environmentally sustainable option. Can MRC help Gridcoin minimize its environmental impact?